Strobist Photo Trade Secrets, Volume 2: Portrait Lighting Techniques

STEVEN HATCH

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Tongue to Pole

INSPIRED BY THE classic film A Christmas Story, Steven Hatch dragged his kids out to a nicely frozen pole at a local park and set up two flashes, each with a shoot-through umbrella. After directing the talent into the positions and expressions he was after, Steven fired away with the model’s tongue a safe distance from the pole. Steven took a second shot with the boy’s tongue pressed against a plastic bowl and combined the two shots into the breathtaking ...